Eighth Annual Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference

General Weekend Schedule

SATURDAY
9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast and Welcome Common Area, Dana Building
9:30 - 10:30 Plenary Talk, Alan Reid 1040 Dana Building
10:40 - 11:10 Student Talks Dana Building Classrooms (see below)
11:20 - 11:50 Student Talks Dana Building Classrooms (see below)
11:50 - 1:20 Lunch
1:20 - 1:50 Student Talks Dana Building Classrooms (see below)
2:00 - 3:00 Young Faculty Talks
3:00 - 4:00 Tea and Discussion Common Area, Dana Building
4:00 - 4:30 Student Talks
4:40 - 5:40 Plenary Talk, Doug Ravenel 1040 Dana Building
6pm - 7:15 Dinner Math Atrium, East Hall
SUNDAY
9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast Common Area, Dana Building
9:30 - 10:00 Student Talks Dana Building Classrooms (see below)
10:10 - 10:40 Student Talks Dana Building Classrooms (see below)
10:40 - 11:20 Coffee Break Common Area, Dana Building
11:20 - 11:50 Student Talks Dana Building Classrooms (see below)
12:00 - 12:30 Student Talks Dana Building Classrooms (see below)

Here is a .pdf version of the weekend schedule.

Student Talk Schedule

Below is the schedule of the student talks. They are grouped into one of four topic categories and are ranked by the speaker according to the level of prerequisite knowledge needed to understand the talk. Abstracts for all talks, listed alphabetically according to the speaker's last name, can be found on the speakers page.

Click here to download a .pdf version of the abstracts for these talks.

 

Algebraic Topology in 1040 Dana Building

Time Speaker Title Star
Sa 10:40-11:10 Mulcahey Towards an Unstable Chromatic Filtration ***
Sa 11:20-11:50 Deshpande An Intuitive Introduction to Homotopy Colimits **
Sa 1:20-1:50 Grady Genera from Deformation Quantization * 1/2
Sa 4:00 - 4:30 Lind 2-Vector Bundles **
Su 9:30-10:00 Samuel Combinatorics of Grassmannians **
Su 10:10-10:40 Frankland Fibered Category of Beck Modules * 1/2
Su 11:20-11:50 Rose Categorification and Knot Homology **
Su 12:00 - 12:30 Bohmann The S^1 Equivariant Generating Hypothesis **

 

Topics in Geometry in 1046 Dana Building

Time Speaker Title Star
Sa 10:40-11:10 Gonzales Topology of Group Embeddings **
Sa 11:20-11:50 Sunyeekh Converse of Lefschetz Fixed Point Theorem **
Sa 1:20-1:50 Kinlaw Refocusing of Null-Geodesics in Lorentz Manifolds **
Sa 4:00 - 4:30 Choi Broken Lefschetz Fibration and their examples *
Su 9:30-10:00 Wu An Introduction to Diffeological Spaces **
Su 10:10-10:40 Liokumovich Homotopy of closed curves on a 2-disc *
Su 11:20-11:50 Alter Linear flows of line bundles over a Riemann surface as solutions to Lax pairs * 1/2
Su 12:00 - 12:30 Dragomir Closed geodesics on compact developable orbifolds **

 

Low Dimensional Topology in 1028 Dana Building

Time Speaker Title Star
Sa 10:40-11:10 Kearney Knot Genera **
Sa 11:20-11:50 Barrera-Rodriguez Heegaard what? A gentle introduction to Heegaard splittings via Complexes of curves **
Sa 1:20-1:50 Roger The Quantum Teichmuller space and invariants of surface diffeomorphisms **
Sa 4:00 - 4:30 Schneider Box-Dot Diagrams for "Regular" Rational Tangles  
Su 9:30-10:00 Dreyer Hitchin representations and length functions * 1/2
Su 10:10-10:40 George Invariants of Legendrian Knots using Chekanov's Differential Graded Algebra *
Su 11:20-11:50 Nogueira Incompressible surfaces in handlebodies and boundary reducible 3-manifolds *
Su 12:00 - 12:30 Sinick Real places and surface bundles **

 

Geometric Group Theory in 1024 Dana Building

Time Speaker Title Star
Sa 10:40-11:10 Fein MCG, Out(F_n), and Linear groups: These are a few of my favorite things * 1/2
Sa 11:20-11:50 Louwsma Immersed surfaces in the modular orbifold **
Sa 1:20-1:50 Sun Non-bounded generatedness of hyperbolic groups ***
Sa 4:00 - 4:30 Adeel Graphs and free groups *
Su 9:30-10:00 Emerick Hey dude, where's the bathroom? *
Su 10:10-10:40 Lee Dehn function and finiteness property ***
Su 11:20-11:50 Dowdall Dilatations of pseudo-Anosovs in the point-pushing subgroup * 1/2
Su 12:00 - 12:30 Liu Knot groups onto hyperbolic knot groups **